LJCS Curriculum
Explore lesson plans, educational resources, and learning materials developed by the Land Justice Community School. Whether you’re an educator, student, organizer, or lifelong learner, these resources are designed to deepen understanding, spark critical thinking, and support collective action for land justice.
Environmental Justice 101
An introduction to environmental justice principles, history, and frameworks for organizers and educators.
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Organizing Toolkit
Practical tools and templates for building grassroots power and running effective campaigns.
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Political Education
Foundational lessons on power, systems, and strategy for movement building.
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Food Justice 101
Exploring the intersections of food systems, land, and community health.
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Individual Lesson
A standalone lesson ready to drop into any classroom or workshop.
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Short Activities
Quick, engaging activities for warm-ups, icebreakers, and reflection.
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Zines
Illustrated zines that make land justice concepts accessible and fun.
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Texas Curriculum
A regionally grounded curriculum built for Texas organizers and educators.
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New York Curriculum
A regionally grounded curriculum built for New York organizers and educators.
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Nevada Curriculum
A regionally grounded curriculum built for Nevada organizers and educators.
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Education by and for our communities
Since 2019 we have worked with teachers, youth, Indigenous leaders, and frontline communities to co-create 100+ lesson plans and resources incorporating justice, learning standards, social emotional learning, traditional ecological knowledge, and green workforce development. This curriculum suite was created under the leadership of Alexia Leclercq by the Start:Empowerment team, the processor org to Land Justice Community School and Earth Convergence. For any feedback, corrections, or edit request email info.startempowerment@gmail.com
Zines
Community-created zines exploring sacred water, foraging, land, culture, and environmental justice through art and storytelling.
Political Education
Justice-centered curriculum building critical consciousness, organizing skills, and systems analysis for community action.
Environmental Justice 101
Foundational K–12 lessons introducing environmental justice, climate impacts, and community solutions.
Food Justice 101
Lessons exploring food systems, land access, sovereignty, and the right to healthy, culturally rooted food.
Short Activities
Short 10–30 minute activities designed for classrooms, workshops, and community learning spaces.
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Texas Curriculum
Place-based climate justice lessons grounded in Texas history, industry, and frontline community experiences.
Nevada Curriculum
Region-specific climate justice lessons focused on land, water, extraction, and community resilience in Nevada.
New York Curriculum
Region-specific climate justice lessons exploring land, water, housing, labor, and environmental inequity across New York.
Organizing Toolkit
Mobilizing for Change: Your Guide to Community Action – Digital Toolkit in Partnership with World Wildlife Fund.
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Foraging in Central Texas
Short Activity
Planting Winter Onions
Short Activity
Evergreen Tea NYC
Short Activity
Bird Feeders
Short Activity
Flat Stanley
Short Activity
Seed Bombs
Short Activity
Case Study on Hurricane Katrina
Short Activity
Environmental Poetry
Short Activity
Food Journeys
Short Activity
Our Environmental Collage
Short Activity
Waste Debate
Short Activity
Trees, trees, trees
Lesson Plan
Module 6 - Foundations of Collectivism + Community Organizing: How to win the world you want to see
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Module 5 - Cultural Power & Revolution: Propaganda, Censorship, and the Ideas that Liberate Us
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Module 4 - Climate Justice, False Solutions, and Just Futures
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Module 3 - Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Global Struggle for Liberation
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Module 2 - Racial Capitalism: The Economic System at the Root of it All
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Module 1 - Why Do We Study: A Primer on Political Education for Problem Solving
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General Facilitator Guide
Short Activity
Dream Journal
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Organizing 101 Toolkit
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Sacred Water
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Water Inequity Zine
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Climate Justice in Texas
Zine
Foraging in the RGV
Short Activity
Myth Busting: Housing Justice in Austin
Lesson Plan
White Supremacy
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White Savior Complex
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Palestine & Climate Justice
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Palestine
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Indigenous Land Relations Lesson
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Art & Activism
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Abolition
Short Activity
Tortillas: Sequence Cards
Short Activity
Pollinators 101
Short Activity
Pecans, History and activity
Short Activity
Nopales, History and activity
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Native Plants of Texas (Part 1)
Short Activity
Making and Using a Sundial
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Mapping Environmental Injustice
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Zine-making for Food Justice
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Our Beautiful Community
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Mutual Aid and Community Mapping (Social Studies)
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Food Insecurity and Data Analysis (Math)
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Composting 101 (Lesson three: Science)
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Food Waste Solutions (Lesson two: Science)
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Food Waste and Landfills (Lesson one: Science)
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Native Foods
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The Climate Story
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Global Climate Crisis
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Climate Change Solutions
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The Politics of Pipelines (Indigenous Resistance)
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Land Justice
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Campaign Building Part 2
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Campaign Building Part 1
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Public Health & Environmental Health
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History of Redlining and Environmental Racism
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Movement Milestones
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Intro to Environmental Justice
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Capitalism
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Intro to Nutrition
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Addressing EcoAnxiety
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My Climate Story
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Global Climate Crisis
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Climate Change Solutions
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The Politics of Pipelines and Indigenous Resistance
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Introduction to Environmental Justice lesson two
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Tenant Organizing
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Forces and Energy in the garden (Part 2)
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Mixtures & Solutions in the Garden (Part 2): Water is Life
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Mixtures & Solutions in the Garden (Part 1)
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Properties of matter (Part 2): Compost, Changes in Matter
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Properties of matter (Part 1): Intro to matter and mass
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Intro to the Allison Garden, Austin
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Spring: Cycles and Patterns
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Spring weeds and plants, Central Texas (PART 1)
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Soil Exploration + Soil in a Jar Lab
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Intro to TX Wildflowers
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Herbs of the garden + DIY garden tea
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Cuentos on Shadows
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Coahuiltecan Creation Story
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Four Seasons: Cycles & Patterns
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3 Sisters
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Seeding Sovereignty: Seeds of Knowledge to Seeds in the Garden
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The History of Bananas: Naw, Naw, Naw (Social Studies)
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Linking Food with Identity (ELA)
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Food Justice through Art (ELA)
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Food and Community Care (ELA)
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Youth Action with LJCS
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The Food Waste Cycle
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Sorting 101 New York City's Waste
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Experimenting with Compost
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Compost & Activism
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Artivism
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Youth Action LJCS Fellows
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Land Justice
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Campaign Building
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Intro to Indigenous Rights
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Native American Reservations
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Public Health & Environmental Health
3 Sisters
Texas Curriculum
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Food Justice
Gardening
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Elementary School
Abolition
Individual Lessons
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Addressing EcoAnxiety
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Air Pollution
Nevada Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Art & Activism
Individual Lessons
Topics
Art-Based
Grade Level
High School
Artivism
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Bird Feeders
Short Activities
Topics
Gardening
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Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Campaign Building
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Political Organizing
Grade Level
Middle School
Campaign Building Part 1
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Campaign Building Part 2
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Capitalism
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Case Study on Hurricane Katrina
Short Activities
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Climate Change Solutions
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Climate Change Solutions
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Climate Justice in Texas
Zines
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Climate Storytelling: Art & Writing Part 1
Nevada Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Art-Based
Grade Level
High School
Climate Storytelling: Art & Writing Part 2
Nevada Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Art-Based
Grade Level
High School
Coahuiltecan Creation Story
Texas Curriculum
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Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Community Organizing in NYC
NY Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Compost & Activism
NY Curriculum
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Composting 101 (Lesson three: Science)
Food Justice 101
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Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Cuentos on Shadows
Texas Curriculum
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Art-Based
Grade Level
Elementary School
Dream Journal
Political Education
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Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Earth: Plants & Food
Nevada Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Food Justice
Grade Level
High School
EJ Movements in Nevada
Nevada Curriculum
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Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Environmental Poetry
Short Activities
Topics
Art-Based
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Envisioning Nevada's Future
Nevada Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Evergreen Tea NYC
Short Activities
NY Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Experimenting with Compost
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Fire: Fire in the Forest
Nevada Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Flat Stanley
Short Activities
Topics
Art-Based
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Food and Community Care (ELA)
Food Justice 101
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Food Justice
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Middle School
High School
Food Insecurity and Data Analysis (Math)
Food Justice 101
NY Curriculum
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Food Justice
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Middle School
High School
Food Journeys
Short Activities
Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Food Justice through Art (ELA)
Food Justice 101
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Topics
Food Justice
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Middle School
High School
Food Waste and Landfills (Lesson one: Science)
Food Justice 101
NY Curriculum
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Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Food Waste Solutions (Lesson two: Science)
Food Justice 101
NY Curriculum
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Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Foraging in Central Texas
Zines
Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Foraging in the RGV
Zines
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
High School
Forces and Energy in the garden (Part 2)
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Four Seasons: Cycles & Patterns
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
General Facilitator Guide
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Global Climate Crisis
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Global Climate Crisis
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Herbs of the garden + DIY garden tea
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
History of Redlining and Environmental Racism
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
History of Redlining and Environmental Racism
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
History of Redlining and Environmental Racism
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Indigenous Land Relations Lesson
Individual Lessons
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Introduction to Environmental Justice lesson two
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Introduction to the Environment lesson one
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Intro to Environmental Justice
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Intro to Environmental Justice
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Intro to Indigenous Rights
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Intro to Nutrition
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Intro to the Allison Garden, Austin
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Intro to TX Wildflowers
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Land Justice
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Land Justice
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Land Justice
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Linking Food with Identity (ELA)
Food Justice 101
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Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Making and Using a Sundial
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Mapping Environmental Injustice
Texas Curriculum
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Mixtures & Solutions in the Garden (Part 1)
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Mixtures & Solutions in the Garden (Part 2): Water is Life
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Module 1 - Why Do We Study: A Primer on Political Education for Problem Solving
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Module 2 - Racial Capitalism: The Economic System at the Root of it All
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Module 3 - Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Global Struggle for Liberation
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Module 4 - Climate Justice, False Solutions, and Just Futures
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Module 5 - Cultural Power & Revolution: Propaganda, Censorship, and the Ideas that Liberate Us
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Module 6 - Foundations of Collectivism + Community Organizing: How to win the world you want to see
Political Education
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Movement Milestones
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Movement Milestones
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Movement Milestones lesson three
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Mutual Aid and Community Mapping (Social Studies)
Food Justice 101
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Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
My Climate Story
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Art-Based
Grade Level
Middle School
Myth Busting: Housing Justice in Austin
Short Activities
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Native American Reservations
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Native Foods
Food Justice 101
Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Native Plants of Texas (Part 1)
Texas Curriculum
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Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Nopales, History and activity
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Organizing 101 Toolkit
Organizing 101
Topics
Political Organizing
Grade Level
High School
Our Beautiful Community
Food Justice 101
Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Our Environmental Collage
Short Activities
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Palestine
Individual Lessons
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Palestine & Climate Justice
Individual Lessons
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Pecans, History and activity
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Place Making & The Building Blocks of Food Justice: a grounding session
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Planting Winter Onions
Short Activities
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Pollinators 101
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Properties of matter (Part 1): Intro to matter and mass
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Properties of matter (Part 2): Compost, Changes in Matter
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Public & Environmental Health
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Elementary School
Public Health & Environmental Health
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
Public Health & Environmental Health
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Sacred Water
Zines
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
High School
Seed Bombs
Short Activities
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Seeding Sovereignty: Seeds of Knowledge to Seeds in the Garden
Food Justice 101
Topics
Food Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
High School
Soil Exploration + Soil in a Jar Lab
Texas Curriculum
Topics
Gardening
Grade Level
Elementary School
Sorting 101 New York City's Waste
NY Curriculum
EJ 101
Topics
Environmental Justice
Grade Level
Middle School
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